“#Christmas planning has begun in the East Wing at the @WhiteHouse. I’m looking forward to sharing our final vision for this unique tradition in the coming months.”
Melania Trump tweet
When Robert Mueller, the former special counsel named to investigate Donald Trump’s ties to the Russian government was testifying before Congress, Melania Trump has more pressing issues on her mind: Christmas planning.
You’d think Trump’s trophy wife, the crusader against online bullying, would be counterbalancing the racist-in-chief’s racist and vitriolic tweets by tweeting some #BeBest pablum.
Or at least offering her thoughts on the fashion choices of the congresswomen interviewing Mueller. You’d be wrong. Melania is already planning on how she can top last year’s garish red Christmas trees desecration of the religious and secular holiday.
If there was any justice in the world the only thing Melania would be planning right now is how to sneak in an industrial size jar of Vaseline to her husband in the Big House.
In
preparation for today’s appearance by Special Counsel Robert Mueller
before the House Judiciary Committee, I watched some of his previous
appearances before Congress, he was terse and concise, but sharp, alert and always on
point.
Mueller
hadn’t testified before Congress for six years, and he’s a reticent
witness even under the best of circumstances. I can now comprehend why
Muller was a reluctant witness and why he agreed to testify only after
he was subpoenaed. I was shocked by the septuagenarian’s shoddy
performance, he struggled to hear and/or understand questions, and he
repeatedly requested that queries be repeated. When members read
verbatim from his report, he appeared dazed and confused as if they were
reading from the Kabbalah.
Mueller
looked liked he had just been dragged away from a convalescent home,
there wasn’t a spark of intelligence emanating from his dead eyes. He
wasn’t at the top of his game, in fact I don’t think he possesses the
mental acuity to play Tic-Tac-Toe.
Democrats
were hoping Mueller’s testimony would be the movie version of his
report, with a straight-out-of-central-casting prosecutor convincing the
American public that Donald Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice.
The only thing that the ageing prosecutor proved is that septuagenarians
are too old to serve as Special Counsel or President of the United
States.
Mueller contradicted himself
(and the report) when he told Doug Collins, the ranking Republican
member on the committee, that collusion and conspiracy were not the same
thing. If he contradicted himself on such a major point, it invalidates his entire testimony.
Mueller’s
report is a damning indictment of Donald Trump, it didn’t exonerate him
from charges of obstruction of justice, it examined ten times Trump may
have done so. It’s only Department of Justice policy that a sitting
president can’t be indicted that prevented Mueller from filing charges.
It’s
the responsibility of the House of Representatives to follow-up on
Mueller’s report and impeach Trump for obstruction of Justice, but the
Special Counsel’s shaky performance will make it more difficult for
Democrats to start impeachment proceedings.
